Local Sports

If you’re planning to be on the links this summer, watch out for Canmore’s Tommy Sluka. Sluka, 12, is fresh off a second place finish at the MJT National Championship in Kisimmee, Florida, where he competed against the top bantam golfers in Canada.

Last season, biathletes Nathan Smith and Rosanna Crawford had a friendly competition over who would reach the world cup podium first. This year, they solved that battle on Day 1.

Two-thirds of the Canmore Eagles’ high-flying top unit has been invited to a Team Canada West selection camp in Leduc, where they will fight for the chance to play with the best from the BCHL and AJHL.

On the strength of a purely dominant performance, the Banff Community High School boys volleyball team has made history.

The Canmore Nordic Centre has altered its fat bike policy for the 2015-16 season, restricting the bikes to ungroomed single and double track trails.

Alex Harvey is ready to challenge for the FIS Crystal Globe and proved as much with a silver medal to lead Canada’s national cross-country ski team in the final tuneup race before the season kicks off on Friday (Nov. 27) in Ruka, Finland.

A local high school volleyball team made some history with a zone championship this past weekend. The Our Lady of the Snows (OLS) girls’ junior varsity squad won the school’s first South Central Zones title in Brooks on Saturday (Nov. 21).

“Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work” is a nugget Canmore Eagles head coach Andrew Milne likes to trot out in interviews on occasion.

Banff’s own Olympic bronze medallist Jan Hudec is a questionable starter for the men’s Lake Louise Alpine World Cup Nov. 28 -29 after tweaking his fragile knee early this week. “Everything seems OK. I kinda squished it in a turn.

Jane Gray skated the free program of her life while Geerthana Somas and Joel Braganza took bronze as the small but mighty Canmore Skating Club placed three athletes on the podium at Sectionals, Nov. 9 in Calgary.